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2011 Spending Finalized at Last: Late last Friday night, Congress narrowly averted a government shut-down, reaching agreement on total spending levels for 2011 literally at the eleventh hour.
The President and House and Senate leaders agreed on cuts reportedly totaling $38.5 billion. Congress then passed a one week stop-gap bill buying time to hammer out the details. While rumors abound, the nit and grit of the agreement won't be available until tonight. Keep following the Baby Blog for analysis of the impact on infants and toddlers. Votes on the final package will occur later this week.
2012 Battle Begins in Earnest: While Washington heaved a collective sigh of relief that the shut-down show-down ended before time ran out, this fight was a mere skirmish in a larger battle over the shape of federal spending for decades to come. This week, the House will consider the Budget Resolution proposed by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and approved by the Committee last week. This proposal would drastically scale back funding for programs that assist low-income children and families, including creating block grants for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Based on the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Resolution, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that over the next 40 years, federal spending for purposes other than Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and defense would shrink to almost nothing.
Many of the savings from these cuts would go not to reduce the deficit but to pay for extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and reducing the tax rates for corporations. Babies whose brains are forming new neural connections at the rate of more than one million each second cannot wait for wealthy Americans and corporations already sitting on profits to decide to invest and let their economic prosperity trickle down to these less fortunate families.
Advocates for infants and toddlers must now turn their attention to this larger battle and once again prepare to take action. Representatives need to hear now that their constituents want a more responsible and far-sighted approach to balancing the budget than one that makes cuts on the backs of the most at-risk children. If we fail to develop our human capital and ensure that vulnerable infants and toddlers have the opportunity to fulfill their potential, we limit the prospects for us all.
Call your Representative: Join advocates around the country during a national call-in period on the House Budget Resolution. Read our alert and take action.
Join a Webinar on the Budget: If you find the federal budget process confusing, you're not alone. Register for a Webinar presented by the Coalition on Human Needs and the Children's Leadership Council Tuesday, April 12, noon Eastern time, and learn about the impacts of proposed cuts from some of Washington's best budget gurus.
Watch ZERO TO THREE's latest budget video: Released just in time to help advocates understand what's at stake as the 2012 Budget Resolution starts to move, The Total Budget Amount Matters guides you through the process and shows how you can get involved.


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Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton's Kingdom
A virtual presentation via Zoom by landscape architect and urban planner Sara Zewde.
By The Friends of Olmsted-Beil House
Thu, January 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Photo credit: Glademir Gelin
Synopsis: Sara Zewde shares her recent research on the impact of Frederick Law Olmsted's journeys through the Slave States on his practice of landscape architecture.
Photo Credit: Frederick Law Olmsted, A Map of the Cotton Kingdom and Its Dependencies in America, 1862, London, England. Courtesy of Cornell University–PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography.
Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a design firm in New York City practicing landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art. The studio is devoted to creating enduring places where people belong. Named to the AD100 and an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, the firm is lauded for its design methodology syncing culture, ecology, and craft. In parallel with practice, Sara serves as Assistant Professor of Practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Sara was named the 2014 National Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation, a 2016 Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and a 2020 United States Artists Fellow. Sara holds a master's of landscape architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a master's of city planning from MIT, and a BA in sociology and statistics from Boston University.
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When it comes to math, having physical objects you can move, or manipulate, often helps kids to better understand the problem. At home your child can use small cars, erasers, and buttons to help solve addition and subtraction problems. We love using playdough for subtraction!
Your child will have fun creating these homemade base 10 math manipulatives, which are perfect for working on double digit math problems.
Cut the pipe cleaners into 2 1/2 – 3 inch long pieces.
Have your child string 10 beads onto each piece of pipe cleaner. You can further challenge them by asking them to put the beads on in a pattern.
Once you have your DIY math counters ready, use them for some hands-on math.
Get out 2 small bowls. Put the sets of 10 in one bowl and a handful of single beads (these will be your 1's) in a separate bowl.
You might also want to get out a set of number cards .
You can use the math manipulatives to talk about the place value for each digit in the two-digit number.
Use the strands of 10 to represent the number in the 10's place, and use the single beads to stand for the 1's. For instance, in the photo below, there are 6 strands of beads to stand for the 6 in the 10's place, and 3 single beads for the 3 in the 1's place in the number 63.
Do this several times together until your child seems comfortable with the concept. You can even stop to count each and every bead on your homemade manipulatives to prove you really have the same number of beads as the number.
Next, you can use the strands with 10 beads to count by 10's, lining them up as you count.
Why spend money on expensive math counters when you can make your own? These colorful homemade math manipulatives are perfect for helping kids better visualize place value as well as what's really happening when you add or subtract those double digit numbers.
For other ideas on how to make your own base 10 manipulatives, check out The Measured Mom.
Note: This updated post originally was published November 28, 2014.
Now this is a brilliant idea to help with math.
Whenever possible I like to make math hands on!
as an EA special needs assistant this really comes in handy!
🙂 Glad someone can use the idea!
What a great idea!! Math is so much easier with a hands-on approach. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
I love this idea. My granddaughter just started 1st Grade. This will make a great learning tool. Thanks for sharing on Sunday's Best.


A Bahrain court has overturned activist Nabeel Rajab's three month conviction. And his crime? Tweeting.
In early July, Rajab was sentenced to three months behind bars for tweeting insults toward Bahrain's Prime Minister. At the time, the prosecution had argued that he sent several insulting tweets insinuating that the Prime Minister was giving handouts to a particular region to curry favor. The defense argued that most of Rajab's accusers were former police and military with close ties to the government.
As the Associated Press reports, Rajab's conviction for tweeting anti-government messages was overturned on Thursday.
Over halfway through the three month sentence, a judge threw Rajab's conviction out of court after just a brief hearing. The main reasoning behind the reversal was the lack of conclusive evidence presented by the prosecution.
However, Rajab won't be going home any time soon: the activist is serving time for another accusation that he incited other activists to clash with military in the Gulf region.
Tweeting has landed other political activists in hot water in recent months. Kuwaiti man Nasser Abdul was jailed last summer for tweeting insults aimed at Bahrain royalty, and in June of this year a Kuwaiti man was sentenced to ten year behind bars for tweeting negatively about Mohammad and Saudi and Bahraini rulers.


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Puerto Rico Is Set To Receive $13 Billion in FEMA Funds
Culture 09.18.20 at 3:11 pm
By Jhoni Jackson
Lead Photo: Twitter: Wanda Vazquez
Twitter: Wanda Vazquez
Puerto Rico is set to receive $13 billion in FEMA funds, according to Puerto Rico Governor Wada Vázquez, who tweeted the news early this morning. She'd just talked with FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor, noting that this bundle of funds is the biggest relief package in the emergency agency's history. Also: Thanks, Trump! (Her words, not ours.)
Vázquez says the funds will go toward "reconstructing our electrical system and education."
The timing is telling, though: Democrats and many Puerto Ricans say it's likely President Trump's need to conquer voters in Florida, where thousands of Puerto Ricans settled post-Maria, that spurred the action.
That was due 3 years ago.
Election time $$$$$rolling
Trump want to sell the "Isla"
Just he is doing some renovations.
Buying BORICUA VOTE
NO MY VOTE🇵🇷🖕
— pako 🇵🇷👊👊🇵🇷👬👬👬🏳🌈 (@pakopako1955) September 18, 2020
September 20 marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Maria and the destruction it wrought, including the subsequent man-made crisis resulting from a lack of federal aid and care, coupled with the inefficiency of local authorities to distribute donations and other relief that was available. During that period, at least 3,000 people died, according to a George Washington University study. (The exact number is still unknown.)
Across the island, power outages occur daily, still. Puerto Rico's education system is additionally strained by COVID-19: With a poverty rate of at least 43% of its population living below the poverty line, virtual learning is a challenge, as not all students have the necessary technology at their disposal. (Some local and federal funding has reportedly been dedicated to resolving this issue, however.)
This specific funding is long overdue, though, implied U.S. House Natural Resources Chairman Raul Grijalva in a statement delivered through the Democrat's office. "Four years of Trump administration abuse and neglect have caused preventable deaths in Puerto Rico, and today's announcement will not erase Puerto Rican memories of how the president has treated the island and its people," Grijalva said.
Congress originally approved $42.5 billion in aid post-Maria, but just $16.7 billion has been spent, Bloomberg reports. Another $25.5 has been "obligated" to the U.S. colony. The total estimated damage was counted at around $90 billion.
FEMA puerto rico Wada Vazquez


At the central cemetery of Sougné-Remouchamps (Liège province), together with those fallen in World War I and II, the Belgians buried Aleksandr Sharov, a member of the partisan movement in Belgium, who was killed on July 19, 1944.
The cemetery is located in the city center. In the old part of the cemetery there is a marble monument having marble plates with the names of the fallen. In the lower right corner there is a plate with the name of Aleksandr Sharov.


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Q: How to use version control with VBA code? I am developing a VBA application which is quite large. I want to use SVN for that  application developing.
How can I split my modules from the Excel document and how to upload my modules separately to source control?
Please help me.

A: Check out this excel addin https://github.com/hilkoc/vbaDeveloper .
It exports all your vba code automatically, as soon as you save your workbook. You can also easily import it again, when you open a workbook. It all work very nicely.
As a bonus, it comes with a code formatter that you can run within the vba editor, so you can format your code as you write.

A: I wrote a small tool to help with putting VBA code under version control, without requiring anything from Excel, or locking you into any specific version-control system. It can either extract modules from an Office file to a folder, or publish modules from a folder to an Office file. In either case it accesses the Office file directly, not through Excel. It's available on GitHub:

Microsoft Office VBA code is usually held in binary format, making proper version control difficult. VBA Sync Tool synchronizes macros between a VBA-enabled file and a folder, enabling easy version control using Git, SVN, Mercurial, or any other VCS.

To start, select the Extract VBA from Office file option, then select the locations of your repository (or where you'd like to start one) and the Office file. The tool will compare the two locations and show all the differences:

If you want to extract everything (typical for setting up a repository), just click OK. If you want to be more selective, you can untick specific files (for example some form designs that you know haven't changed) and then proceed. If you set up a diff tool (under File → Settings), you can double-click on a module to view its changes.
After a merge, follow the same procedure, but select the Publish VBA to Office file option. When you hit Apply or OK, the tool will write the combined code into the Office file.

A: With file->export file you can export the individual classes.
That's one way to split the modules out - temporarily or otherwise.
Once you've done that, you can then create an SVN repository. I won't go into instructions for that as it's all over the internet, but here's a starting point:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch05s02.html

A: Check out this answer on how to automatically extract all modules/forms/classes to text files. Which will make them more manageable in SVN.

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We have hours yet. Our wives could bake a pie in that time, blueberry or rhubarb, fruit bubbling from the sweltering inside, brown-crusted & hot for the arrival. Instead it's cigarettes & cards, tomato sandwiches & feeling our skin go desert. Waiting because we were told to wait, looking at nothing. Our wives would say Why don't you mow the lawn or Maybe today you can clean the garage but domestic life feels unreachable. Our wives, they'd be fanning themselves, searching for shade. Asking when her plane would show. We'd say We haven't heard yet & We're still waiting & they would start to panic. We'd eat pie. Swallow down any germ of fear, quiet tic in the throat. Every so often, a static-hewn message, a woman's voice come from nowhere like the Sibyl & just as tangled. Later our reports will read KHAQQ [Amelia]: UNHRD. KHAQQ [Amelia]: UNHRD. Twice for fact, three for witchcraft. Like our wives saying Is she really gone? Honey, is she really gone? & us saying Hush now, hush & later singing Amelia Amelia Amelia to the dark.
Casey Patrick's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, Passages North, Grist, and others. She was awarded the 2014–2015 Writers House Residency by Hub City Writers Project and currently lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches with The Loft Literary Center.


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Ocean Colour Scene: 'Six years is a long time not to have new material out'
Ocean Colour Scene. Picture: Karen Allen
Duncan Seaman
Steve Cradock has just played two sold-out shows at the Royal Festival Hall with his long-time friend Paul Weller when we catch up with him, and the 49-year-old guitarist appears to be still buzzing from the experience.
"They were off the scale," he enthuses about the concerts whose setlist incorporated songs from The Jam and The Style Council as Weller's now lengthy solo catalogue and involved multiple musicians.
"They were just incredible. I think they were the best thing I've ever been involved with."
Having been at Weller's side thoroughout the last 25 years, Cradock has perhaps a unique standpoint on the Modfather's long musical journey. While he says you "can't compare" his own experience to Weller's, he observes: "Paul has always kind of done what he wants to do, obviously, but I think it's been accepted now. Since 22 Dreams, 10 years ago, that started what people call a 're-birth' or that 'purple patch', but he can do what he wants to do and people just love him enormously. I couldn't compare myself anywhere near that."
With Weller currently basking in the critical and commercial triumph of his latest album True Meanings as well as the career-spanning shows, now would appear to be the best of times. Cradock firmly agrees. "I think it's the best thing I've heard Paul do," he says. "I've been a fan of The Jam since I was a kid, like a lot of people, and I think [the Royal Festival Hall shows were] truly breath-taking, the whole thing was a spectacle. It was f****** hard work to get there, though – in that respect I'm kind of pleased it done and gone. We knew it was going to be a short, sharp travel up the hill and then it would soon be over, and that's what it was, and it was amazing."
Weller has contributed a poem that became the lyrics to Standing In The Place That You Used To Do, one of four new songs on Ocean Colour Scene's new EP, released to coincide with their UK winter tour.
It wasn't written specificially with Cradock's band in mind, the Birmingham-born guitarist admits – "He's always got notepads on the go" – but nonethless he gladly accepted it when Weller offered to him. "He said, 'Do you want to do anything with this?' and that was quite a few years ago now, maybe three or four years, and then I wrote the vocal melody to it. I didn't write a song around that, actually, I already had the chorus refrain, 'standing in the place that you used to do', and I just made those words fit."
While lead track Another Bard May Chant might appear to comment on recent political turmoil, Cradock says its origin goes back much further. "I used to sing 'Blair's got bloody hands', it would've been that long ago, and all the bull**** of a Labour leader that people trusted in and were happy with was practically a f****** criminal and led us up the garden path, so that's how that started.
"I don't know if it's political. I don't know, I was just trying to write a song, really."
Across the course of the EP, OCS manage to cover quite a lot of musical ground in just four songs. Cradock says as band they've always thought nothing is off-limits. "We've always been a rock band who plays acoustic songs, we've always been that sort of mash-up of things, ever since we started nearly 30 years ago. I guess it's the same, we haven't changed in any way, really, and I think it would be too late to change."
As a band we haven't put anything out I think for six and a half years, which is disgraceful. Hence we've been doing these album tours because we've just been waiting for things to happen.
Steve Cradock
In recent years the band have devoted tours to revisiting their biggest selling albums, Moseley Shoals and Marchin' Already, to commemorate various anniversaries. Cradock sounds slightly frustrated that there hasn't been much new music until now. "As a band we haven't put anything out I think for six and a half years, which is disgraceful. Hence we've been doing these album tours because we've just been waiting for things to happen.
"Simon [Fowler, the band's lead singer] obviously hasn't been in the writing mode."
On their UK tour OCS will be supported by Martha Reeves and The Vandellas. Cradock sounds delighted to have the Motown legend along for the ride. "I still can't believe it's going to happen," he says. "It's just beyond exciting, I can't wait. And also you could go and see an artist like that I guess whenever they tour but it was just put forward to us that it was a possibility and I just thought it would be a wonderful idea. If you like us you're going to like Sixties music, aren't you? It just sounded like it would make for a great night out for everyone, myself included."
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OCS are due to celebrate their 30th anniversary next year. At the moment, Cradock says, they have no special celebration planned. "It would be awful if we didn't but I haven't heard any proposals as of yet. Who knows?
"I'd like to go and play Stirling Castle again – having said that you can't just play one Scottish show and that's it. But I'm hoping that we're going to be working on an album next year. I think maybe this has given Simon a feel for getting back into a studio and creating again. I'm frustrated, definitely. Six years is a long time not to have new material out but I guess it's the always same with our band, we just go with the flow, it becomes part of our character, laziness. There's not a lot you can do about it, you have to wait for things."
Another Bard May Chant EP is out on November 16. Simon Fowler plays an acoustic set at Pretty Green in Leeds on November 22 at 7pm, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Ocean Colour Scene play at O2 Academy Leeds on December 5. www.oceancolourscene.com


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namespace Optimus\OptimusBundle\Servicios;

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;

class ServiceAPSPMPresenter {

    protected $em;
	protected $apadaptative;
    protected $aptcv;

    public function __construct(EntityManager $em, ServiceAPAdaptative $apadaptative, ServiceAPTCV $aptcv)
    {
		$this->em=$em;
		$this->apadaptative=$apadaptative;
		$this->aptcv=$aptcv;
    }

	//Get Status week
	public function getStatusWeek($idActionPlan, $startDate, $endDate)
	{
		//$initDay=$startDate." 00:00:00";
		$initDay=\DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $startDate." 00:00:00")->modify("+0 day")->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");
		$finalDay=\DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $endDate." 00:00:00")->modify("+1 day")->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");

		$aDays=$this->getDaysFromDate($initDay, $finalDay);
		$numDays=count($aDays);
		$aStatusWeek=array();

		for($i=0; $i < $numDays; $i++)
		{
			$qCalculation=$this->em->getRepository('OptimusOptimusBundle:APCalculation')->findCalculationByDate($aDays[$i], $idActionPlan);
			$currentDayFormat=explode(" ", $aDays[$i])[0];

			if($qCalculation != null)
			{
				$idCalculation=$qCalculation[0]->getId();

				$outputDay = $this->em->getRepository('OptimusOptimusBundle:APSPMOutputDay')->findOutputByDay($idCalculation, $currentDayFormat);

				if($outputDay)
				{
					$aStatusWeek[]=array('status'=>$outputDay[0]->getStatus(), 'idOutputDay'=>$outputDay[0]->getId());//statusDay

				}else	$aStatusWeek[]=array('status'=>0, 'idOutputDay'=>0);

			}else	$aStatusWeek[]=array('status'=>0, 'idOutputDay'=>0);
		}
		//dump($aStatusWeek);
		return $aStatusWeek;
	}

	//GET Status & colors action plan
	public function getTrafficLight($idActionPlan, $dateActual, $startDate, $endDate)
	{

		$initDay=$startDate->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");
		//$finalDay=$endDate->modify('-2 day')->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");
		$finalDay=$endDate->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");
		$actDay=$dateActual->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");

		$aDays=$this->getDaysFromDate($initDay, $finalDay);
		$numDays=count($aDays);
		$aDataActionPlan=array();
		$aFinalValues=array();

		for($i=0; $i < $numDays; $i++)
		{
			$qCalculation=$this->em->getRepository('OptimusOptimusBundle:APCalculation')->findCalculationByDate($aDays[$i], $idActionPlan);
			$currentDayFormat=explode(" ", $aDays[$i])[0];

			if($qCalculation != null)
			{
				$idCalculation=$qCalculation[0]->getId();

				$outputDay = $this->em->getRepository('OptimusOptimusBundle:APSPMOutputDay')->findOutputByDay($idCalculation, $currentDayFormat);

				if($outputDay)
				{
					if($aDays[$i] < $actDay)
					{
						$status=$outputDay[0]->getStatus();
						if($status==0) 		$color="#ffff00";
						elseif($status==1)	$color="#00ff00";
						elseif($status==2)	$color="#ff0000";
						$aDataActionPlan[]=array("status"=>$color, "date"=>$aDays[$i]);			// 0=Unknown, 1=Accepted, 2=Declined
					}elseif($aDays[$i] >= $actDay)
					{
						$status=$outputDay[0]->getStatus();
						if($status==0) 		$color="#cccccc";
						elseif($status==1)	$color="#00ff00";
						elseif($status==2)	$color="#ff0000";

						$aDataActionPlan[]=array("status"=>$color, "date"=>$aDays[$i]);
					}
				}else{
					$aDataActionPlan[]=array("status"=>"#ffff00", "date"=>$aDays[$i]);
				}
			}else{
				$aDataActionPlan[]=array("status"=>"#ffff00", "date"=>$aDays[$i]);
			}
		}

		$numUnk=$this->calculateUnknowns($aDataActionPlan, $dateActual);

		//if($numUnk == 0) 		$strStatus=0;
		if($numUnk >= 1)		$strStatus=1;
		else					$strStatus=2;

		$aFinalValues[]=array("aOutputActionPlan"=>$aDataActionPlan, "status"=>$strStatus);

		return $aFinalValues;

	}

	//Get number of unknows
	private function calculateUnknowns($aDataActionPlan, $dateActual)
	{
		$actDay=$dateActual->format("Y-m-d");
		$numUnk=0;
		foreach($aDataActionPlan as $dayActionPlan)
		{
			$currentDay=explode(" ", $dayActionPlan['date'])[0];

			if($currentDay >= $actDay and $dayActionPlan['status']=="#cccccc")		$numUnk++;
		}

		return $numUnk;
	}

	// Returns an array of every day between two dates:
	private function getDaysFromDate($from, $to)
	{
		$aDays=array();
		$aDays[0]=$from;
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President Obama's Weekly Address | 'We Will Not Be Terrorized'
"In this week's address, the President offered his condolences to the families and community of the victims of the San Bernardino shooting."
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
Hi, everybody. This weekend, our hearts are with the people of San Bernardino—another American community shattered by unspeakable violence. We salute the first responders—the police, the SWAT teams, the EMTs—who responded so quickly, with such courage, and saved lives. We pray for the injured as they fight to recover from their wounds.
Most of all, we stand with 14 families whose hearts are broken. We're learning more about their loved ones—the men and women, the beautiful lives, that were lost. They were doing what so many of us do this time of year—enjoying the holidays. Celebrating with each other. Rejoicing in the bonds of friendship and community that bind us together, as Americans. Their deaths are an absolute tragedy, not just for San Bernardino, but for our country.
We're also learning more about the killers. And we're working to get a full picture of their motives—why they committed these revolting acts. It's important to let the investigators do their job. We need to know all the facts. And at my direction, federal law enforcement is helping in every way that they can. We're going to get to the bottom of this.
It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror. And if so, it would underscore a threat we've been focused on for years—the danger of people succumbing to violent extremist ideologies. We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people—around the world and in our country—to commit terrible acts of violence, often times as lone wolf actors. And even as we work to prevent attacks, all of us—government, law enforcement, communities, faith leaders—need to work together to prevent people from falling victim to these hateful ideologies.
More broadly, this tragedy reminds us of our obligation to do everything in our power, together, to keep our communities safe. We know that the killers in San Bernardino used military-style assault weapons—weapons of war—to kill as many people as they could. It's another tragic reminder that here in America it's way too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun.
For example, right now, people on the No-Fly list can walk into a store and buy a gun. That is insane. If you're too dangerous to board a plane, you're too dangerous, by definition, to buy a gun. And so I'm calling on Congress to close this loophole, now. We may not be able to prevent every tragedy, but—at a bare minimum—we shouldn't be making it so easy for potential terrorists or criminals to get their hands on a gun that they could use against Americans.
Today in San Bernardino, investigators are searching for answers. Across our country, our law enforcement professionals are tireless. They're working around the clock—as always—to protect our communities. As President, my highest priority is the security and safety of the American people. This is work that should unite us all—as Americans—so that we're doing everything in our power to defend our country. That's how we can honor the lives we lost in San Bernardino. That's how we can send a message to all those who would try to hurt us. We are Americans. We will uphold our values—a free and open society. We are strong. And we are resilient. And we will not be terrorized.
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8 Comments for President Obama's Weekly Address: 'We Will Not Be Terrorized'
Rebekah Cassell says:
What do you call it, then? Oh yeah spontaneous workplace violence.
Vanessa Mendenhall says:
really ? we just were
Denise Randall says:
When can we impeach this sorry excuse for an American?
Robyn Flath says:
He keeps saying that after all the shootings !!!!
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ENOUGH!
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Once in a great while someone will email us asking why we cover the same restaurant twice before choosing to write about others. Well, when you talk about a high-caliber dining experience like that of Mama's Fish House on Maui, there really needs no explaining.
Sunday, March 21, marks the opening day of Hawaii's polo season. In true island style, this year's Hawaii Polo Club has upped the ante with an improved clubhouse, more food and beverage vendors during match play, and an energetic half-time and post-match entertainment line-up.
Four Seasons doesn't let much time slip by without a major renovation or improvement to one of their deluxe Hawaii properties. This week, it's the Hualalai locale that announces the completion of a 15-month, $40 million face lift.
Executive director Chuck Boller and the organizers for this year's 30th Annual Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) will get the ball rolling with the 13th year of "Spring Showcase"—20 films that will screen at Regal Dole Cannery Stadium theaters, April 16 – 22, 2010.
Once in a great while you'll catch wind of a truly fascinating story. As a journalist, I often hope it's one that's both true, and one I can track down the characters of. The story you're about to read came to us through a screening of the film Surfwise, at the Maui Film Festival a few years back.
Nobu enthusiasts rejoice: The man himself will be on O`ahu from February 9 – 12, 2010, to eat, drink and prepare his signature fare just for you. The global restaurateur will also work closely with MA`O Organic Farms to design an omakase menu inspired by the harvest of produce from the Waianae-based outfit.
The start of a New Year never fails to excite chefs and restaurateurs to get things off to a booming start. We've come across three such events in the coming few weeks that, if your palate is one that needs to be stimulated, you might want to consider attending.
Those that have been following the developments at Kapalua know that here, in one of the most spectacular locales on Maui (and the entire island chain), things have been evolving for the better part of two years.
It isn't hard to see why Chef Mavro is the place for special occasions—and tomorrow night—New Year's Eve, is no exception. (Editor's Note: We are huge proponents of visiting this locale on any occasion.


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No slouch when it comes to progressive policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear the dangers of embracing Medicare-for-all, publicly questioning how we would pay for it. She told The Washington Post in a recent interview, "When most people say they're for Medicare-for-all, I think they mean health care for all. Let's see what that means. A lot of people love having their employer-based insurance and the Affordable Care Act gave them better benefits."
While some Democratic contenders have thrown their lot in with Sanders, others are in sync with Pelosi (who, you remember, engineered a 40-seat pickup and takeover of the House promising to defend the ACA). Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state and Beto O'Rourke, to name three, have adamantly refused to offer a Sanders-type plan that most Democrats aren't yearning for anyway and for which no realistic path to passage exists. They think they can accomplish something for voters in short order and avoid painting a big fat target labeled "socialist" for Republicans to take aim at.
O'Rourke certainly has been prodded to sign up for the Sanders' Medicare-for-all political death sentence. However, from his first post-announcement interview on "CBS This Morning" up through his rallies, he has refused to bite. He stresses that allowing people to keep plans they like but giving others the option to enroll in Medicare is the fastest way to cover more people and offer a cheaper alternative to coverage.
At Penn State University, he told the crowd, "Two extraordinary women with whom I served in Congress, Jan Schakowsky of Illinois [and] Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, have introduced a proposal called 'Medicare for America' that ensures that if you have employer-based insurance and if you like it, you keep it. Your doctors, your network, what works for you right now." He added, "If you don't have insurance or you don't like the insurance you already have, you enroll in Medicare."
Klobuchar also has stood her ground. "The smartest transition right now would be to do a public option, and you could do it by expanding Medicaid, you can expand Medicare," Klobuchar said in a CNN interview in February. "I'm on both bills that do that, and that's going to get us more quickly, I believe, to where we need to go."
Inslee hit a similar message in a CNN interview.
As he said, it's not necessary to embrace Sanders' plan, either politically or as a policy matter. With a variety of methods (a public option, earlier buy-in for Medicare) Democrats can achieve their goals "without eliminating private insurance carriers."
By any definition, these three candidates are good-standing members of the left; they just don't have a political death wish.
Candidates who really want to win the nomination, not just get the most "likes" on Twitter, should keep that political reality in mind. If these contenders can withstand the pro-Sanders hordes of twerps and social media posters and communicate directly with voters, they'll find that their own approach to build on the ACA is more than satisfactory. What's more, if O'Rourke, Klobuchar or Inslee manage to win the nomination, the Democrats won't have lost the general election before it has even begun. They can spend 2020, like Pelosi did 2018, reminding voters that Trump wants to take away health-care coverage and they want to make it better.


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package boofcv.alg.transform.ii.impl;

import boofcv.alg.transform.ii.SparseIntegralGradient_NoBorder;
import boofcv.struct.image.GrayF32;
import boofcv.struct.sparse.GradientValue_F32;

/**
 * Computes the gradient Haar wavelet from an integral image.  Does not check for border conditions.
 *
 * @author Peter Abeles
 */
public class SparseIntegralHaar_NoBorder_F32
		extends SparseIntegralGradient_NoBorder<GrayF32, GradientValue_F32>
{

	private GradientValue_F32 ret = new GradientValue_F32();

	@Override
	public void setWidth(double width) {
		super.setWidth(width);
		w = 2*r;
		x0 = y0 = -r;
		x1 = y1 = r;
	}

	@Override
	public GradientValue_F32 compute(int x, int y) {

		int horizontalOffset = x-r;
		int indexSrc1 = input.startIndex + (y-r)*input.stride + horizontalOffset;
		int indexSrc2 = input.startIndex + y*input.stride + horizontalOffset;
		int indexSrc3 = input.startIndex + (y+r)*input.stride + horizontalOffset;

		float p0 = input.data[indexSrc1];
		float p1 = input.data[indexSrc1+r];
		float p2 = input.data[indexSrc1+w];
		float p3 = input.data[indexSrc2];
		float p5 = input.data[indexSrc2+w];
		float p6 = input.data[indexSrc3];
		float p7 = input.data[indexSrc3+r];
		float p8 = input.data[indexSrc3+w];

		float left = p7-p1-p6+p0;
		float right = p8-p2-p7+p1;
		float top = p5-p2-p3+p0;
		float bottom = p8-p5-p6+p3;

		ret.x = right-left;
		ret.y = bottom-top;

		return ret;
	}

	@Override
	public Class<GradientValue_F32> getGradientType() {
		return GradientValue_F32.class;
	}
}


The smallest magnetic features in the solar photosphere are the G-band bright points. It is fundamental to study their structure and size, as they are in the resolution limit,and can appear as points or unresolved features (Ishiwawa et al 2007, Berger et al 2004). We intend to study them at maximum spatial resolution in intensity and magnetic field at several wavelengths to determine their dimensional and thermal structure. Observations in G-band (=430.5nm), CaII(=396.9nm), CN(=388.35nm) as well as magnetograms: MgIb(=517.27nm), FeI(=517.27nm) and NaID(=589.6nm are proposed in this document.
Obtain SOT filtergrams from the Broad band Filter Imager(BFI): G-band, CNI, CaIIH, Blue and Red continuum in this priority order, at the best possible conditions (highcadence,binning 1x1, etc). Since one of the scientific objectives is to study bright points, a cadence of about 20seconds(in accordance with the current telemetry restrictions) would be fine.
Obtain SOT magnetograms (Stokes parameters I, V)from Narrow band Filter Imager (NFI) on wavelengths: NaID,MgI or FeI.
SP: Obtain magnetograms or spectropolarimetric maps in "Fast Map"mode, if possible at or near the sametime as the filtergrams. As the previous case,we would like to get the best possible conditions. This would be the last instrumental priority.
If the SP cannot be operated simultaneously with the BFI,the SP maps could be obtained during one hour before or after the main BFI operation described above.
Obtain images at 3A, 304A and at 5000A during the same timeas for SOT. (To study possible coronal magnetic fields and XBP, in quiet Sun small features).


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Demand for foreign workers may soften Japan's immigration rules
By Reuters &nbspJune 15, 2018 | 09:46 am GMT+7
Workers from Thailand work at Green Leaf farm, in Showa Village, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, June 6, 2018. Photo by Reuters
In Japan's rapidly aging countryside, agriculture is becoming dependent on foreign workers for survival.
Shinichiro Tsukada says his small plastering company in Tokyo wouldn't survive without the 22 Chinese and Vietnamese workers who make up half his payroll.
"They're treasures, real treasures," he said. "Workers are disappearing as our population ages. Buildings cannot be built because there aren't enough workers. We have no choice but to allow them into the country."
Across Japan, hotels, farms and construction sites are feeling an intensifying labor crunch as the worker pool shrinks and demand rises ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
That is prying open the country's restrictive immigration policies, which until now have only allowed a trickle of so-called unskilled foreign workers into the country.
But authorities are treading carefully because immigration is a delicate subject in Japan. Although public attitudes are slowly shifting, there is widespread concern that an influx of foreigners will upset the social order, increase job competition and weaken traditions.
"I believe we'll continue to need foreign workers," said Hiroki Kojima, a 28-year-old in the information technology industry. "But the word 'immigration' makes me anxious because good things about Japan, like public safety, could deteriorate."
Driven by economic and demographic forces, the government is set to announce plans on Friday that will create new five-year work permit categories for foreigners.
Officials have said they are focusing on five areas: farming, construction, hotels, elderly care and shipbuilding.
Authorities are also considering allowing foreign workers who pass certain tests to stay indefinitely and bring family members. If the measures are approved by the Cabinet, the government aims to have parliament make them into law this fall.
Although authorities are reluctant to describe the steps as immigration policy, they mark a turn toward a more open Japan.
"We are reaching a point where if we don't start thinking about immigration, then Japan's future will be in danger," said Toshihiro Menju, the managing director at the Japan Center for International Exchange.
The number of all types of foreign workers in Japan has risen steadily in recent years to 1.28 million - about 1 percent of the population - more than doubling from 486,000 in 2008.
The biggest increases have come in two categories: foreign students, who are permitted to work 28 hours a week, and those on a technical intern program, which lasts up to five years before participants must return home.
Many trainees see such internships as a way to earn more money than they would at home, while Japanese businesses often hire them to do undesirable jobs that are hard to fill.
The new permits are meant to bring more workers into that pool and have been applauded by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a group of small and medium-sized businesses that have been hit hardest by the crunch.
Surveys show public attitudes are gradually becoming more accepting of foreigners.
A 2017 survey by public broadcaster NHK showed that 51 percent of respondents said restrictions on foreign workers should be maintained at current levels, down slightly from 56 percent in 1992.
But among many Japanese, worries persist.
"The image I have is that they might make the city dirtier, like spraying graffiti or throwing trash," said Yuki, a woman in her 40s who lives in Tokyo. "If they were doing more highly skilled work that would enhance Japan's economy, I'd be in favor of that. But I'm worried about bringing in blue-collar workers."
A bestselling book published last year, "Chronology of the Future," captured many people's fears.
Author Masashi Kawai, a journalist with the conservative Sankei newspaper, said Japan should transform into a compact and more efficient country rather than relax immigration rules.
"The acceptance of a large number of immigrants in European countries has brought about such turmoil as terror attacks, riots and anti-immigration movements," he wrote. "An unprincipled acceptance of foreigners will create a social divide in Japan, too."
Struggling farms
Shouji Sawaura, 54, says he simply cannot hire enough locals at his farming business, Green Leaf, in central Gunma prefecture, where he raises spinach, cabbage and other vegetables.
He relies on 24 workers from Thailand and Vietnam who operate machinery in a factory that makes pickles and shirataki noodles.
"We need a system that allows in foreigners for these kinds of jobs" instead of relying on temporary trainees, he said.
The new permits also would remove fees paid to brokers who arrange the internships, Sawaura said.
Sawaura, however, baulked at the idea of allowing unskilled workers into the country indefinitely with their families - but not out of fear for safety, which he says has never been a problem in his area.
His concern is that in an economic slump, the laborers would be less able to support their families, putting a strain on Japan's social services.
Sawaura recalled the fate of many Japanese Brazilians who came to Japan during the 1990s and early 2000s under special work permits, but lost their jobs during the 2008 financial crisis. Many returned to Latin America.
"Only those who have skills and expertise to support themselves should be allowed to stay indefinitely," he said.
Japan is only beginning to wake up to the need to integrate foreigners into society, with language being one of the biggest obstacles, said Keizo Yamawaki, a professor of immigration policy at Meiji University in Tokyo.
To that end, lawmakers have drafted a bill calling for steps to educate foreigners living in Japan.
"If I don't know Japanese, I don't even communicate with my co-workers, with my patients, with my boss," said Connie Santiago, a Filipina who works at the Asakusa Horai elderly care home in Tokyo.
Wang Jinbao, 48, a Chinese plasterer who has worked for six years at Tsukada's construction company, says he would like to be able to live with his family in Japan.
Wang said learning the language has helped him fit in. He likes Japan's safety and cleanliness, has made friends here, and earns about twice as much money as he would in China.
"I want to keep working here," he said.
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This entry was posted in Tiny House and tagged Compound, Llano River, Matt Garcia Design, texas, tiny house.
A couple of things come to mind. It appears that there is no insulation, which may not be a problem in Texas, but I'm sure one could hear their neighbors sneeze! The other thing is all the plywood. Doesn't anybody worry about "outgassing" anymore? Maybe they've changed things that I'm not aware of, but I was always told that the fumes given off by the adhesives in plywood, "chip board", etc. were bad. Is that not true any more? Other than that that, I like the design/construction.
From the pictures, it looks like the walls and roof are at least four inches thick, so I don't see why they wouldn't be insulated.
I agree about the plywood, though. There is low-VOC/formaldehyde-free plywood available, but it's somewhat expensive — more than solid wood in some cases.
I live in Texas and believe me it would be a problem not to have insulation from 100 degree + in the summer to snow in north Texas / Hill Country. I'm sure it is insulated. I absolutely love the idea these families have. I was thinking the same way. I want a community, but I want a small community. Cuddos to y'all for taking the steps to achieve their dreams.
Looks like there is spray foam insulation mentioned in the linked article just above the second image. There are other techniques for insulation and rain screen. I have been a fan of Matt Risinger for awhile now and his take on the 500-year house are revolutionary to me. May not be as cheap as what these folks have done but worth consideration for thin air tight envelopes. And for sure the heat is a bigger concern in this part of the country.


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Christopher Lloyd Wiki, Bio, Age, Net Worth, and Other Facts
Below is a compiled list of the most interesting facts about Christopher Lloyd. Check it out!
Christopher Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA as Christopher Allen Lloyd. He is an actor, known for Back to the Future (1985), Addams Family Values (1993) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). He has been married to Lisa Loiacono since November 23, 2016. He was previously married to Jane Walker Wood, Carol Ann Vanek, Kay Tornborg and Catherine Boyd.
1 Interesting Facts about Christopher Lloyd
2 Personal Quotes by Christopher Lloyd
Interesting Facts about Christopher Lloyd
In Man on the Moon (1999), he appears as himself reprising his old role of Rev. Jim Ignatowski in scenes from Taxi (1978), 20 years after the sitcom had aired.
In a June 2009 interview, he said that the role of Klingon commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) was one of his favorite roles.
He was the visual inspiration for Gru, the main character of Despicable Me (2010) and sequels, after he played Fester Addams in The Addams Family (1991). He was 72 years old at that point. He also was the visual inspiration for Dru, Gru's long-stranded brother, in Despicable Me 3 (2017), after playing Fester Addams again in Addams Family Values (1993).
Has worked with Frank Welker in five films: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), The Pagemaster (1994) and In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994).
He was considered for the role of Harry Lyme in Chris Columbus' Home Alone (1990), which went to Joe Pesci.
Owns a home in Montana; his home in Montecito, California was destroyed by the Tea Fire of November 2008.
Born on the exact same date as Sir Derek Jacobi.
A devoted bicyclist, he once rode through Italy, pedaling from Milan to Venice, over the Dolomites, along the Amalfi coast and to Naples.
To prepare for the role of Taber in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), he lived in a mental institution for several weeks and studied the patients. He modeled his character after one of the patients and stayed in character throughout the filming, even when not on screen.
His maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham (1858-1934), was an entrepreneur who made a fortune consolidating smaller business in the leather industry. He was also one of the founders of Texaco Oil Company.
Younger brother of Sam Lloyd Sr., uncle of Sam Lloyd.
Is the youngest of seven children of Samuel R. Lloyd and Ruth Lapham.
Personal Quotes by Christopher Lloyd
There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.
- Christopher Lloyd
I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.
I feel that I have been very fortunate and had the opportunity to play some wonderful roles and movies and worked with some great talent.
A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun.


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Motorola Unveils Brand New Earbuds Sports & Earbuds Metal In Ear Headphones
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Motorola has launched brand new Earbuds Sports and Earbuds Metal ear headphones in India. The news was announced on Wednesday by the India licensee of Motorola Companion Products range, Shyam Telecom Limited. The earphones are among several products that have been launched by the company over the past couple of months.
Moto Earbuds Metal and Earbuds Sports headphones sport in-line mics calls for the purpose of hands-free calling.
Priced at Rs. 999, the headphones are available at Modern Trade Chains, Mobile Retail Outlets, and eCommerce Portals. The headphones include a 10mm neodymium driver in both the earpieces. Besides, they are splash proof and are IP-54 water-resistant.
The new headphones sport in-line mics calls for the purpose of hands-free calling. They also come with a 1.2-metre of cable wire and three sets of extra soft silicon in-ear gels. For ensuring excellent audio quality, it comes with sound isolation feature. Moreover, its lightweight feature makes it easier to carry around. Motorola has stated that the headphones have been tested on athletes. The headphones have been designed keeping in mind the efficient sound quality as well as style.
There is also a wide range of color options for the users to choose from. The Earbud Sport comes in four different color variants – Orange, Blue, Red, and Slate. On the other hand, the Earbud Metal also comes in four other color options – Silver, Matte Black, Gold, and Rose Gold, as per The Mobile Indian.
The Earbud Metal has an all metal finish with sand blasting which not only gives it a premium look but also protects it from wear and tear.
The Earbud Sport has been specially designed for fitness freaks, who prefer a light-weight headphone. It is also equipped with a special removable soft rubber ear clip that fits around the outer ear to make sure that the headphones remain in place. It has been designed focusing on ergonomics.
The news comes three weeks after it was reported that JBL would soon come up with Everest 2.0 Bluetooth headphone series.


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Kin Of 39 Missing In Iraq Asked To Undergo DNA Test
After the Central Government failing to get a concrete clue on the fate of the 39 men missing in Iraq for three years, their families were today asked to undergo DNA
Amidst reports of 39 killings, Sushma Swaraj denies any concrete information on '40 missing' in Iraq
New Delhi, India: India's minister of External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj today said that there is no concrete proof or information regarding either the safety or killing of the 39 Indians kidnapped in Mosul (Iraq) in June.
Indians, Punjabis abducted in Mosul (Iraq) killed by ISIS, claims media report
New Delhi, India: A news reported by ABP (Sanjha) maintained that 39 out of 40 Indians, mostly Punjabis, abducted in Mosul (Iraq) by ISIS operatives are dead now. They were kidnapped by ISIS back in June and there was no information on their whereabouts.
Sikh Federation UK supports military action against ISIS
London, United Kingdom (Sept. 27): A written statement by Sikh Federation UK, a UK based organization, says: "[A] humanitarian crisis is taking place in Iraq with the barbaric acts of ISIS - beheadings, crucifixions, gauging out of eyes, burying people alive and use of rape as a weapon.
Khalsa Aid (UK) launches relief mission in minorities fleeing ISIS
London, United Kingdom (August 17, 2104): A UK based humanitarian aid NGO, Khalsa Aid has reportedly launched its relief mission in Iraq to assist the fleeing minority communities including Yazidis being persecuted in Iraq.
US airstrikes bring panic for the families of 41 Indian workers kept as captives in Iraq
Airstrikes by US in Iraq has spread panic among the families of 41 kidnapped Indian construction workers abducted by ISIS back in June. The abducted persons are believed to be held captives by ISIS in Iraq. As the US started air-strikes against ISIS in Iraq, the families of these 41 persosn are extreemly worried. But on the other hand the Indian Embassy officials have claim the Indian captives, majority of whom were Punjabi, were safe.
Northern Iraq: Civilians in the line of fire (by Amnesty International)
Northern Iraq: Civilians in the line of fire, published today by Amnesty International, contains harrowing accounts from displaced civilians who fled areas seized by ISIS, fearing for their lives after their relatives were abducted and killed by the group, and amid increasing danger from Iraqi government air strikes.
116 Indian workers arrive in New Delhi; many other still strained in Iraq
It is learnt that 116 workers who were till now caught up in the war torn Iraq arrived in New Delhi on Monday (July 07), while many others are still being held captive by the suspected militants.
Nurses who were stuck in Iraq return to Kerala; Terms of release being kept secret by Indian Govt.
According to media reports a group of 46 nurses caught up in fighting in Iraq arrived home in India on on July 05 after briefly being held captive by suspected militants.
Indian Nurses taken to Mosul (Iraq) "against their will" are free now, on their way back to India
As per recent media reports Syed Akbaruddin, spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) today maintained that the 46 Indian nurses taken to Mosul "against their will" are free now. He further added that the government will "leave no stone unturned" to bring back Indians trapped in "extremely difficult circumstances" in strife-torn Iraq.
Iraq crisis: 46 Indian nurses taken to undisclosed place
Amidst the worst situation in Iraq, armed fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday moved all Indian nurses in Tikrit to an undisclosed location. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin claimed they were safe and unharmed so far. He further claimed that the MEA is in touch with interlocutors on the ground.
Khalsa Aid (UK) helps rescue Indians, Punjabis stranded in Iraq
It is learnt that Khalsa Aid, an international humanitarian organisation based in the UK, has been working closely with comedian-turned-politician Bhagwant Mann to rescue the ...
Stranded Indian Nurses in Iraq: "There is no guarantee that we will be paid if we go back to India", updates Amnesty India
New Delhi, India (July 03, 2014): Indian nurses stranded in Iraq have reportedly told Amnesty International India that armed men have taken control of a ...
600 Indians will be brought home this week from Iraq, says Indian govt
Amidst the intensified home war of Iraq, the Indian government today said more than 600 Indians would be returning to their homeland from strife-torn Iraq this week.
Iraq's construction companies barred Indian workers to return home
The companies, which hired Indian workers in Iraq's various parts, barred them from returning home fearing that their construction work would be stalled due to lack of labour.
Ardas held by SGPC for the safely-return of youths from Iraq
For the safely-return of over 700 youths from Punjab and Haryana, who were stuck in Iraq, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee (SGPC) offered prayers on Tuesday after Bhog of Akhand Path at Gurdwara Jhanda-Bunga of Shri Darbar Sahib.
"I am not in depression, rather engaged in helping Punjabis stuck in Iraq", claims Bhagwant Mann
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s Member Parliament (MP) from Sangrur has claimed that he was not suffering from depression as was "propagated" by some sections of the media. Rather, he said, he was engaged in helping Punjabis stuck in trouble-torn Iraq.
More than 700 youths from Punjab and Haryana stuck in Iraq
As per the state governments of Punjab and Haryana, nearly 700 people from both the states are stuck in strife-torn Iraq.
"If PM Modi agress, I am ready to go to Iraq to negotiate release of kidnapped Punjabis": Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann
It is learnt that the Aam Admi Party (AAP) MP from Sangrur (Punjab) Bhagwant Mann has offered to go to the trouble-torn Iran if Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sends him as an official emissary.
Details of 52 Punjabis kidnapped/ abducted in Iraq; List issued by the Punjab government
The Punjab State Government has released details of Punjabis that have been kidnapped in Iraq. Though the general media reports are mentioning that 40 Punjabis have been kidnapped/ abducted in Iraq, but the Punjab government list includes details of 52 persons


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A Primer on Privilege in 500 Words or Fewer
By Gina Luttrell on January 14, 2013 in Social Issues
This is reposted with permission from Serving Tea to Friends
When I wrote my last post, I got a few questions about privilege. Since my fellow Tea-Servers are in the middle of finals and moves across the country, I figured I'd explain to the best of my limited ability.
And because my last post was so long, I'm going to attempt to do this in 500 words or fewer. Game time!
Privilege Starts with Power
Power is the ability to influence your world. This works both on micro– and macro– levels. People with power have the most influence over their own lives as well as the ability to shape the larger world. People with power have more authority in any given situation than those who don't. Their opinions are respected more. Their experiences are considered more valid. The kinds of experiences they have are inherently shaped by their power.
Power is Inherited
Power tends to concentrate and grow. This is particularly true for sociological power, which is not obvious to most. When a system is created in which people with certain characteristics are valued above others, a cycle is created in which the next generation of people who have those characteristics obtain that power without even really knowing it.
Inheritance is Systemic
Who gets power and who doesn't depends entirely on the society that is constructed, and that is not something that individuals control. There is no mastermind waving a wand, and there is no conspiracy. Oppression is societal — the result of massive numbers of actions combining to create patterns of behavior. Most people who have power don't realize it, didn't ask for it, and don't know how to acknowledge it.
Systems Create Power
Large-scale patterns of behavior that favor particular groups of people over others generate people use that power (however unconsciously). Use of the power reinforces the system. Those group narratives become favored over others, unrepresented narratives become undervalued, and the power remains with the groups of people who had it in the first place.
And so on, and so forth.
I criticized Lindy West for not acknowledging her privilege. Lindy West is a self-described middle-class white woman. Because she has power, the ways racism effect her are patently different than the ways racism affects others. Racism affects real people in serious ways. There might be things that people of color would prefer to talk about instead of hipster racism. Maybe hipster racism isn't all that important to them. Instead of asking this first, West wrote about racism with respect to how it affected her as a white person, without acknowledging the desires of people who are more seriously affected by it.
More importantly, because she has the privilege of a white person's perspective, people listened. She used her privilege to shift the debate from topics that peoples of color might have wanted to talk about to topics that she as a white person cared about. By doing this, she perpetuated the cycle of privilege.
And that's not cool.
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One year ago, Pebble showed it's Pebble smartwatch to the public for the very first time in Las Vegas at the 2013 CES. And today, Pebble opened the second chapter and is announcing during today's press event the introduction to the "Pebble Steel", the company's new and premium smartwatch. Following the iconic, colorful and sporty 1st smartwatch design, the Pebble Steel takes everything Pebblers know and love to a more stylish and enhanced level. Like the original Pebble, the Pebble Steel comes with an ePaper display, 5 to 7 days battery life and waterproof design; but sports a smaller and thinner package. Pebble says that it's latest smartwatch is made of forged and CNC-machined stainless steel.
As Pebble announced today, the smartwatch pioneer will be ready to launch its Prebble appstore in early 2014 for all Pebble users around the world. As Pebble said, the appstore will integrate seamlessly into the Pebble smartphone app for Android and iOS and providing a one-stop shop for Pebble customers to search, browse and install a wide array of awesome Pebble apps. The Pebble appstore will feature 7 categories for Daily, Remotes, Games, Notifications, Tools & Utilities, Sports and Fitness apps - and of course - Watchfaces. In each category, Pebble said it will also feature a selection of the best apps as well as new apps to the category. If a Pebble app requires a companion Android or iOS app, links to Google Play or the Apple appstore will be included as well, to help users find the appropriate app.


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How do you know if there are animal derived ingredients in your cosmetics?
Most of us would probably look for a rabbit or a green 'V' to denote vegetarian or perhaps look for the word Vegan on the packaging.
There are many commercially driven companies profiting from this lack of clarity within the EU cosmetics market. Each with their own agenda, ethos and (for the brands wishing to display a stamp of approval), price.
India has now made it mandatory to disclose animal derived ingredients on packaging. This is great news for those wanting some clarity on the issue and the brands paying large annual sums to the 'certification' businesses.
I wonder if we will see a similar move here?


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The harvests of Chernobyl via Aeon
By Kate Brown
You can't miss the berry-pickers in the remote forests of northern Ukraine, a region known as Polesia. They ride along on bicycles or pile out of cargo vans. They are young, mostly women and children, lean and suntanned, with hands stained a deep purple. And they are changing the landscape around them. Rural communities across eastern Europe are struggling economically, but the Polesian towns are booming with new construction. Two hundred miles west of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, thousands of mushroom- and berry-pickers are revving up the local economy. As they forage, they are even changing the European diet, in ways both culinary and radiological.
The rise of the Polesian pickers adds a strange twist to the story that began on 26 April 1986, when an explosion at the Chernobyl plant blew out at least 50 million curies of radioactive isotopes. Soviet leaders traced out a 30 kilometre radius around the stricken reactor and emptied it of its residents. Roughly 28,000 square kilometres outside this exclusion zone were also contaminated. In total, 130,000 people were resettled, but hundreds of thousands remained on irradiated territory, including the Polesian towns of Ukraine's Rivne Province. In 1990, Soviet officials resolved to resettle several hundred thousand more residents but ran out of money to carry out new mass evacuations.
Last summer, we went to Rivnе to talk to people who in the late 1980s wrote petitions begging for resettlement. In the letters, which we had found in state archives in Kiev and Moscow, writers expressed worries about their health and that of their children, while describing a sense of abandonment. Help never arrived; the Chernobyl accident came just as the Soviet state began to topple economically and politically. In 1991, the whole giant crashed to earth, crushing factories, farms, hospitals, schools, and casting aside a whole way of life called 'Soviet' that millions of people, even as they grumbled about it, had held dear. For decades after, local economies in Polesia slowed to a birch-sap trickle. Revitalisation programmes launched by international development agencies and government projects in the mid 1990s failed or were scaled too small to have an impact. Former collective farms, unable to survive without government subsidies, turned to weeds. Young people took off for cities.
We arrived in the Rivne Province expecting to see tumbled-down peasant cottages and overgrown gardens, villages inhabited mostly by the elderly, as in many regions directly in the lee of the plant. Instead, we zoomed along on remarkably good roads, checked into a comfortable new roadside hotel, swam in a just-opened sports-club pool, and drove through freshly built suburban developments with large single-family houses, surrounded by grilles, sprinklers and lawn dwarfs. The whir and pound of saws and hammers building more houses echoed across the former farmland.
Startled by all this economic development, we asked where the money came from. Locals talked of the amber barons. In the past few years, the price of amber rose 1,500 per cent, driven by Chinese demand. Gangs of armed men took control of the lucrative local business of unlicenced logging and digging for amber. The loggers and amber prospectors bring in money; they also leave behind deep trenches and scorched clearings pitted with furrows, stumps and sand, lending swathes of the Polesian forest the look of a Saudi beach party on the morning after. But much of the newfound wealth comes from the pickers whom we started noticing all around.
Anyone in Polesia can pick anywhere, as long as they are willing to brave the radioactive isotopes. After Chernobyl, Soviet officials strongly discouraged picking berries in contaminated forest areas, which promised to remain radioactive for decades. As the years passed, fewer and fewer people heeded the warnings. In the past five years, picking has grown into a booming business as new global market connections have enabled the mass sale of berries abroad. A person willing to do the hard work of stooping 10 hours a day and heaving 40-pound boxes of fruit to the road can earn good money. The women and child pickers are revitalising the Polesian economy on a modest, human-powered scale. They are quietly and unceremoniously doing what development agencies and government programmes failed to do: restoring commercial activity to the contaminated territory around the Chernobyl Zone.
Contrary to our assumption, the berries rejected as too radioactive were not discarded, but were merely placed aside. Then they, too, were weighed and sold, just at lower prices. The wholesalers we spoke to said that the radioactive berries were used for natural dyes. The pickers claimed the hot berries were mixed with cooler berries until the assortment came in under the permissible level. The berries could then legally be sold to Poland to enter the European Union (EU) market, even if some individual berries measured five times higher than the permissible level. Such mixing is legal as long as the overall mix of berries falls within the generous limit of 600 becquerel per kilogram set by the EU after the Chernobyl disaster.
No one, certainly no official, ever envisioned revitalising the economy by exploiting berries and mushrooms. Months after the 1986 accident, Soviet scientists determined that forest products were the most radioactive of all edible crops, and banned their consumption. However, villagers in Polesia never stopped harvesting berries and mushrooms (as well as game and fish) from the forests outside the fenced-off Chernobyl Zone. Women sold their produce surreptitiously at regional markets, deftly avoiding the police who learned to identify Polesians by their homemade baskets.
This is the usual, colonial exchange of raw materials for higher-priced, manufactured goods. In this case, though, the trade signals a positive development for the locals. For three decades, Polesians ate radioactive forest foods themselves. Berries that fall below EU radiation standardscan pass into European markets, destined for wealthier consumers abroad. This flow of goods westward marks a small shift in the global caste system, in which poorer populations usually consume the most toxic by-products of the industrial world. Adding a further twist, Polesian berries are often marketed to the western European customers as organic; radioactivity does not affect that designation.
Despite the fact that the nuclear disaster presented scientists with a unique living laboratory, few funding agencies have been willing to finance Chernobyl studies on non-cancerous health effects; based on Japanese bomb-survivor research, industry scientists have insisted that there would be no measurable non-malignant impacts. In Chernobyl-contaminated Polesia, however, few people doubt that ingesting radioactive toxins over decades has a biological cost. Galina, the woman who declared that there was 'no Chernobyl', changed her view later when talking about her own health. Trim and fit at the age of 50, she had a stroke followed by two surgeries for 'women's cancer'. About her cancers, she said: 'All of a sudden, they started growing day by day. I asked the doctors if they'd hold up the operation until autumn [after the harvest], but they said I'd be dead by then. Probably, these problems were caused by radiation. It does have an effect, apparently.' Even less is known about non-cancer health impacts from Chernobyl. Many locals complain of aching and swollen joints, headaches, chronic fatigue and legs that mysteriously stop moving. There have been almost no studies investigating these vague complaints.
[…]The mass marketing of radioactive Polesian forest products is an unexpected outcome of policies aimed at finalising the disaster. It is a development that disputes the focus on Chernobyl as a 'place'. Rather, Chernobyl is an event, an ongoing occurrence that transpires as long as the radioactive energy released in the accident continues to decay.
Chernobyl could be the emblematic disaster of the Anthropocene, the modern geological epoch in which humans are the driving force of planetary change. The widespread appearance of man-made materials, such as radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests and reactor accidents, are archetypal signals of this new age. Our bodies, like the Polesian berries, are receptacles of those materials. More than 60 new nuclear power plants are currently under construction, poised to add more radioactivity to a human-generated environmental cocktail that also includes plastics, heavy metals and industrial chemicals. Far beyond Chernobyl, a return to normal no longer means a return to natural; the whole world is Polesia.
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Reigning champions Exeter moved to the top of the Aviva Premiership despite the unconvincing manner of their 31-17 win over injury-hit Harlequins at Sandy Park.
Their bonus-point success moved them two points ahead of Saracens, who they meet at Allianz Park next Sunday.
Harlequins, inspired by the skill of young fly-half Marcus Smith, were the better side for large parts of the game but a number of marginal refereeing decisions went against them.
Jonny Hill scored two of Exeter's tries, with one each for Olly Woodburn and Lachie Turner, while Gareth Steenson converted all four and kicked a penalty.
Tim Visser and James Chisholm scored tries for Quins, with Smith adding two conversions and a penalty.
Exeter took the lead in the fifth minute with a splendid try from Turner. A poor kick from James Lang surrendered possession to the Chiefs before a jinking run from Phil Dollman saw him beat three defenders to send the wing over.
Quins were level when bursts from Mat Luamanu and Smith put the home defence on the back foot and Chisholm evaded Mitch Lees' tackle to run 25 metres to score.
Smith converted but missed a penalty so it remained at 7-7 at the end of an enterprising first quarter.
Quins had marginally the better of that opening period but it was Exeter who regained the lead when slick passing from their three-quarters created a well-worked try for Woodburn.
The visitors then suffered a further setback when Harry Sloan left the field with a leg injury and was replaced by Charlie Walker.
They soon overcame that blow to score their second try when Smith chipped ahead and outmuscled Steenson for the loose ball to send the supporting Visser over the line.
Moments before half-time, Quins looked to have scored a third try when a neat break from Smith sent James Horwill crashing over but the TMO ruled that the visitors' skipper had been held up by Woodburn.
However, Exeter were penalised and Smith kicked a penalty to give his side a 17-14 half-time lead.
Within four minutes of the restart, Exeter were back in front when Hill scored from close range after Don Armand softened up the defence with a couple of surges.
Quins appeared to have regained the lead when Lang collected Smith's chip ahead to score. But once again the rub of the green went against them when the TMO ruled Visser put a foot in touch earlier in the move.
Going into the final 15 minutes, the game was still in the balance with Exeter making a number of slipshod errors in an uncharacteristic performance from them.
The whole-hearted Woodburn was exempt from any criticism and his run started the move which resulted in Hill's second and Exeter's bonus-point try, before Steenson kicked a last-minute penalty.


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Flipkart, Amazon Banned From Selling Amway, Oriflame Products: This Is The Reason Why!
By Radha Joglekar Last updated Jul 12, 2019
Flipkart, Amazon Banned From Selling Amway, Oriflame Products
As per the latest reports coming in, the Delhi High Court has banned e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal from selling products of direct sellers such as Amway, Modicare, and Oriflame on their platform without prior consent.
As per the complainants, the e-commerce giants have been selling products of Amway, Oriflame, and Modicare on their platforms at hugely discounted rates. This obviously ends up in the companies facing unnecessary losses.
But this won't happen anymore, as the High Court has itself banned the e-commerce giants from selling their products without taking consent of the concerned companies.
Delhi High Court Bans E-Commerce Websites From Selling Products Without Consent
Three multi-level marketing companies, Amway, Oriflame, and Modicare have filed a complaint against e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Flipkart, 1MG, and Snapdeal for selling products on their platforms at lowered prices. This led to the companies incurring heavy financial losses.
They also have alleged that the e-commerce platforms have been indulging in some kind of tampering or contaminating the products. They have also said that the commodities sold may have been counterfeited, and might not be authentic at all.
Siding with the companies, The Delhi High Court has restricted the Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal and 1MG from selling their products. The Court has specified that prior consent has to be taken by the platforms from the companies.
The court is of the opinion that it is easy for sellers to sell products on these platforms without verification or a quality check. The court credited this to the platforms not following their own code of conduct and policies, which is what is least expected of them.
In its 225 page order, the court has also said, "Thus, this court has no hesitation in holding that the continued sale of the plaintiffs' (Amway, Modicare and Oriflame) products on the e-commerce platforms, without their consent, results in inducement of breach of contract, and tortious interference with contractual relationships of the plaintiffs with their distributors."
Products Tampered At Warehouses of E-Commerce Platform Sellers
Some local commissioners inspected the warehouses of specific sellers on Amazon, Flipkart, Healthkart, Snapdeal, 1MG. Based on the report submitted by these commissioners, the court came to the conclusion that not only were the MRPs manipulated to be higher, but names were wrongly attributed too.
Additionally, codes and inner seals of the products were totally unauthentic, and dates were changed on the expired products as well.
If you are buying any of the products from Amway, Modicare, and Oriflame, make sure you buy them from the sales representatives of the companies, until authorized products are available on the e-commerce platforms for you to buy.
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